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niyad

(112,435 posts)
Mon Oct 5, 2015, 09:51 PM Oct 2015

House Republicans to Launch New Select Committee to Investigate PP as Attacks on Clinics Continue

(hey, all you woman-hating gestational slavers, how about investigating the domestic terrorists who are threatening women's clinics and health care all across the country?? oh, yeah, that would be YOU and your sick, woman-hating followers, wouldn't it?)


House Republicans to Launch New Select Committee to Investigate Planned Parenthood as Attacks on Clinics Continue


On Saturday, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced House Republicans will assemble a new select committee to investigate Planned Parenthood, one of many formed since the release of several deceptively-edited “sting” videos by anti-abortion (terrorist) group the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). The videos, which CMP claims capture the illegal sale of fetal tissue, have since been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked. Meanwhile, two Planned Parenthood clinics in two different states have been set on fire in apparent arson.




According to Blackburn, the committee’s creation is the first part of a three-pronged strategy devised to limit abortion rights in the wake of CMP’s fraudulent videos. The committee, to be chaired by Blackburn under the jurisdiction of the Energy and Commerce Committee, plans to push the passage of “additional pro-life measures” through Congress and “break the Senate logjam” by crafting a budget reconciliation package with the intent of defunding Planned Parenthood.

House Democrats, including House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, were swift to condemn the House Republicans’ actions, alleging the lawmakers are “trying to make it easier to shut down the government and harder for millions of women to access the lifesaving health care. One in five American women has relied on a Planned Parenthood health center in her lifetime,” said Pelosi in a statement Saturday. “Hard-working families deserve better than a taxpayer-funded Republican Committee fixated on dismantling women’s health.”

The introduction of a new investigative committee is the latest in a string of maneuvers by conservative lawmakers wishing to defund Planned Parenthood as attempts in recent weeks to attach the issue to a federal funding bill that must pass in Congress Wednesday or risk government shutdown have failed.

To date, state and federal inquiries into Planned Parenthood have found no evidence of wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, attacks against Planned Parenthood Clinics have been happening across the country. Just last week a Planned Parenthood clinic was set on fire in California in an apparent arson, as a bottle filled with flammable liquid was thrown through a window. The clinic is working to assess damage and re-open as quickly as possible. And last month, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington was also set on fire. Police have determined this case arson, and this clinic sustained significant damage burning for almost three hours before fire fighters were able to quell the blaze. (I still remember pics of all the firefighters just standing there watching the blaze. Still no answer about why, or why it took three hours to put out the fire, hmmmmm?)

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/10/05/house-republicans-to-launch-new-select-committee-to-investigate-planned-parenthood-as-attacks-on-clinics-continue/

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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. "Please fucking proceed" is what John Boehner must have said when he heard this and resigned.
Mon Oct 5, 2015, 10:13 PM
Oct 2015

That the Teahadists have hung all their long dreamed of moment of Kristallnacht on smearing PP with so outrageously and transparently a stupid ploy may be a good thing for everyone else, because this has to end up bringing down the whole Republican castle of lies way beyond just PP being exposed as the massive propaganda smear it is.

Could this be the Maria law folks last permitted fuckup?

Vinca

(50,170 posts)
4. I hope their "investigation" uncovers the number of abortions prevented by Planned Parenthood
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 08:16 AM
Oct 2015

thanks to free or affordable contraception. I hope they also realize the community clinics they think women should go to instead also often perform abortions. By the way. They keep saying they're not scientists, so why do they think they're doctors?

spanone

(135,635 posts)
6. marsha blackburn never saw a social program she didn't want to dismantle
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 11:08 AM
Oct 2015

she's a toxic brew of hate and partisanship

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